Global Warming: an Incubator of Deterritorialized States

According to the Romanian philosopher and writer, Emil Cioran (1911-1995), “We do not live in a country, we live in a language. A homeland is this and nothing else”1. Following such logic, dominion over a territorial substratum is not very important from the perspective of allowing a group of people to identify themselves as sovereign. However, etymologically, the term territory comes from the Latin territorium meaning “an area in which a group of people live”2. Deprived of such territory, the unity of the human group originally residing there may therefore disappear. However, the nation state shows itself to be particularly flexible and capable of evolving according to the political challenges it faces3. To date, the transformations causing profound changes or the disappearance of States were the result of actions taken by other state entities. These transformations were the result of armed conflict, a conquest, a war of independence, a